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No. 402,756. Patented m 7, 1889.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES E. MANNING, OF WAVERLY, NEW YORK.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 402,756, dated May 7, 1889.

Application filed February 14, 1889. Serial No. 299,837. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES E. MANNING, a citizen of the United States, residing at Waverly, in the county of Tioga and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Signs; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to signs intended to be used in connection with electric lights for purposes of direction, advertisement, or dis play; and the invention consists in the peculiar and novel manner of attaching to or supporting the sign from the electric-lamp frame.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of one type of electric light with my sign in place. Fig. 2 is a similar view of another kind of lamp. Fig. 3 is a plan view of the devices shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a similar View of the devices shown in Fig. 2. Fig. 5 shows detail views of the devices for securing the sign-support to the frame of the electric light. Fig. 6 shows the sign support and bracket upon an enlarged scale.

My invention is capable of use upon any electric light having vertical rods for supporting the globe or other fixtures. These rods in some cases are outside and in others are located inside the globe, when a globe is used.

In the light shown in Fig. 1, A A represent these vertical rods, and B the usual crosspiece at the bottom, upon which the globe is set. To these rods, and above the globe, I secure a supporting ring or collar, B. The means for attaching the ring are shown in detail in Fig. 5.

O represents a clamp having formed at one end a sleeve, 0, which receives the ring orcollar. To the opposite end of the piece 0 is hinged the clamp proper, c. The parts 0 and,

c are recessed at 0 so as to inclose the rod A when the hinged clamp is fastened down. A

screw, 0 passing through the clamp c and into the part 0, keeps the entire device firmly in position. It will be understood that one of these clamps is secured to each of the supporting-rods A. Where only one sign is employed, it is not necessary that the ring should be complete, so as to surround the lamp; but, as shown in Fig. 3, a half-ring may be employed, the ends of which are secured in the clamps by set-screws f. The sign, which 1s preferably of transparent or translucent ma terial, is suspended from-the ring, as shown in Fig. 6.

D represents a frame of any desired shape grooved to receive the sign-plate, and having secured at its top a sleeved bracket, E, which fits the ring B and is held by a set-screw, e. The sign is thus suspended from the ring in front of the electric light in the most favorable position for display.

In the type of lamp shown in Fig. 2, in which the vertical rods are placed closer together and surrounded by the globe, the shape of the ring is necessarily changed, as shown in Fig. 4; but the construction of. the ring, the manner of securing it to'the lamp-frame, and the manner of attaching the sign to it are precisely similar to the construction already described.

Having described my invention, I claim- 1. The combination, with the vertical rods of an electric light, of a vertical support, a sign suspended therefrom, and clamps connecting and securing together the said rods and support, substantially as described.

2. The combination, with the vertical rods of an electric light, of a clamp having a hingejoint and secured to one of said rods, and also having a sleeve, and a ring or collar secured within said sleeve and supporting a sign, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have affixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

' CHAS. E. MANNING.

Witnesses:

H. N. STEVENSON, ROBERT B. HINE.

It is hereby certified that in Letters Patent No. 402,756, granted May 7, 1889, upon I the application of Charles E. Manning, of Waverly New York, for animprovement in Signs, an error appears requiring the following correction: In line 77, of the printed specification, the word vertical should read horizontal,- and that the Letters Patent should be read with this correction therein to make the same conform to the record of the case in the Patent Office.

Signed, eounter'signed, and sealed this 25th day of June, A. D. 1889.

CYRUS BUSSEY, Assistant Secretary of the Interior.

[SEAL] Oountersigned ROBERT J FISHER,

Acting Commissioner of Patents. 

